The person who received your money by mistake is the best person to help you. That person can refund your money back to you in a few clicks after logging in. Just email that person and ask for the refund. If it gets nowhere then here is a PayPal Customer Service phone number to call: 1-888-221-1161. This number can be found after you login into your PayPal account. You will find a Contact Us link at the bottom on the account overview page. By clicking Contact Us you will see a help page which has another link that says Help By Phone. Clicking it will get you the above phone number. I once called that number and after some buttons later I was able to talk to a live person. You can talk to the person for as long as you need to describe the problem and listening to the help suggested by the person. I am not sure they can cancel your payment. I believe they will tell you to contact the person who received your payment and ask for a refund. Unless the person is a thief you should be able to get your money back quickly. David
--- On Tue, 10/7/08, Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > From: Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@GMAIL.COM> > Subject: Re: PayPal... anyone know how to contact a living organism there?? > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 7:43 PM > > Have the seller make the inquiry. They are more > receptive to sellers than > > buyers for some reason. With enough offensive emails > you will eventually get > > a legitimate email or call from Paypal. > > Maybe, IF it was possible to actually send a message that > someone > would read (or even send them a message at all!). > > Unfortunately the following: > +1-402-935-7733 (Personal Accounts) > +1-402-935-2057 (Personal Accounts) > are NOT lines to people; they just take you to the phone > menu which > doesn't have an option I can use, and the menus do not > accept my phone > number, without which I cannot complete the menu... > > So in other words PayPal has my money and there's no > way to get it > back. I might have to contact the police about this... > > -- > Andrew Grebneff > Dunedin, New Zealand > Fossil preparator > Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut > Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada > <goose1047@gmail.com> |
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